Maxine Kumin Quotes
- Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?
- We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
- And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
- Love, we are a small pond.
- Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
- The time on either side of now stands fast.
- Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die…
- When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
- ... people get confidential at midnight.
- Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
- To build is to dwell.
- A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
- There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan.
- So many poems you go into and come up empty.